Bhongir

Bhongir is a town and District Headquarter of Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of the Indian state of Telangana. It is a part of Hyderabad Metropolitan Region, located on National Highway 163.EtymologyBhongir Fort is one of the isolated monolithic rocks carved by the Western Chalukya ruler Tribhuvanamalla Vikramaditya VI and was thus named after him as Tribhuvanagiri. This name gradually became Bhuvanagiri and subsequently Bhongir.GeographyBhongir is located at. It has an average elevation of.DemographicsThe municipal area covers 9.63 km². As of 2011 India census, Bhongir had a population of 53,339. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Bhongir has an average literacy rate of 70%, less than the national average of 74.04%; with male literacy of 78% and female literacy of 61%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.PoliticsBhongir as a Lok Sabha constituency came into existence in 2008 as per Delimitation Act of 2002. Pailla Shekar Reddy is the present MLA.CultureNotable persons from the town are Raavi Narayana Reddy,Alimineti Madhava Reddy, Pratyusha, Sudhakar Ratnapuram.